The Business of Open Source
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Episode 203
Season 1
Taking a hard look at what community means and if every OSS company needs one with Deepak Prabhakara
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with
BoxyHQ co-founder and CEO
Deepak Prabhakara. We talked about a number of things, from BoxyHQ’s relationship with its open source project, called SAML Jackson to how to build a growth flywheel and how that flywheel does and does not depend on a community.
- Is BoxyHQ a security company? Does it matter either way?
- Starting the open source project at the same time as the company, and why they did it that way
- The relationship between the user community and the customer community
- BoxyHQ as the anti-platform — instead of trying to build a platform, which is the default goal for a lot of companies I speak with — they are explicitly trying to build a more a la carte experience for users
- The challenges of community building around a project that isn’t sexy and how to build community that isn’t project-focused, but rather that’s focused around a problem space
- Making the mistake of assuming your startup is completely unique and unlike any others!
We talked about much more as well, and it’s definitely an episode you should check out.